The 2016 ANA report on media transparency was a welcome and long-overdue wake-up call for the global advertiser community. By highlighting the existence of nontransparent trading practices in the U.S. media market — by most measures the largest and most sophisticated in the world — the report focused many national and global advertisers’ attention on the issue of transparency in media. It was the first stepping stone on the journey to more transparent media trading.

The world’s biggest advertisers took the lead in addressing the issue of transparency, on both their own behalf and that of the industry, through their own businesses and from the conference stage. At the 2017 IAB Annual Leadership Meeting, P&G Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard called the digital supply chain “murky at best, and fraudulent at worst.” Months later, Pritchard’s peer, Unilever’s then-CMO Keith Weed told Facebook and Google it was time to “drain the swamp or lose advertising revenue.”

Read the full ANA article here.